Femme Links! Whee! :-D

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Okay.

It's Femme Tea Party Day in Ottawa (Raw Sugar, 1pm, for those who self-identify as femme and want in on the fun) and, handily enough, Prosewitch just linked me to a nifty article, which links to another not-nearly-so-nifty-but-still-relevant article, both of which I shall now link to here:


From Sugar Butch
On Femme Invisibility

I especially like this:
One of the bottom-line issues about femme in/visibility, for me, is that it is a form of gender discrimination. When someone refuses to recognize a femme as queer, that person is saying, straight women are feminine, dykes are not, therefore your gender presentation trumps anything that might come out of your mouth about how you identify or who you are, and I am more right than you are about your identity. The sex-gender assumption is too strong and too fundamental for many people to be allowed to be overridden.

I think Julia Serano talks about this, from a slightly different angle, in Whipping Girl.


AND

From "Can I Help You, Sir?"
Where Are You?


[EDIT:
And Two More.

One from Alpha Femme:
Femme (In)Visibility.

AND

One more from Sugar Butch:
Further Thoughts on Privilege and Gender.
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- TTFN,
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